I am a noob, and I believe more is involved, not just HTML/CSS. SO if this needs to moved, I am sorry, but I honestly don't know where it belongs. Here is what I want: A particular section within a site called "videos". This section will have videos that users (to whom I have given permission) have uploaded. The videos may have a small thumbnail with a description, as well as details, and rating system. I would like the videos to be streaming as well as downloaded. Also if say there are 100+ videos, I would like ppl to be able to browse them by certain characteristics the possess. This is probably simple, but here is the main part: some of the videos will be restricted to people who: A. are not members of the site B. do not pay for the videos* *some videos will be free, others will cost money Now it gets even more tricker; I want a function that allows the person who uploaded the video, get a portion of the profit. Example: UserA uploads a video. I set the price to $3.99, and set a percentage (I get 60%, he gets 40%). 38 people download the video (totaling $151.62). I get $90.97, he gets $60.64. Ideally the uploader, as well as me, can track the profit from the video. What will be required to achieve my goal? Thanks for the help.
You're going to need html/css/flash/php/mysql not to mention a really good server host with lots of hard drive space and bandwidth.
It's also a hard market to get into with sites like yahoo videos, google videos, youtube, photobucket videos and so on. Not saying it can't be done just saying you might be in over your head if you're trying to compete with them.
PHP/SQL Could achieve what you're wanting. HTML would come in for re-writing the pages and CSS would fit into the design side. This project would take some time to put together. Id like to hear more about your idea, feel free to send me a pm.
This is not for a public a general audience, this is for a specific demographic. It is a site the helps develop strategy with regard to a particular game. I'm deffinately not trying to create a huge site like google or youtube. I would imagine the longest videos would be 100mb. and I doubt I would get more than 1,000 downloads a month (especially if ppl are downloading to hard drive so that you don't have to constantly stream). I would imagien first 3-4 months I'd get like 20 uploads a month at most. Thanks for the other insights! Looks like I have some hurdles to overcome.